Jorge Pérez, whose Related Group giddily filled Miami’s skyline with glossy condo tower after glossy condo tower, until the real estate bust nearly sank him, comes to the formal dining room of his waterfront Coconut Grove house freshly shaven, in a crisp shirt the color of ripe mango flesh.

A housekeeper pours coffee as he pops mini quiches and nibbles on cut fruit. Miami’s über developer, as he became known when he was riding high atop the bubble, looks ready to tackle whatever it is über developers tackle day to day.